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...activities are an advantage or a disadvantage to scholarship. . . . If they are not a disadvantage, should not the public school men be allowed--and urged to take--a larger share in them, and must we not search further for some cause or causes to which we can trace the inferior showing of the private school...
...always think Germany will get everything she wants? Why do you always think you will be in an inferior position? If one sets out to make peace, one must not be afraid of it. And in an accord like this there is always a simple method of avoiding being duped, which is to keep one's strength. We would be very culpable...
Patent monopoly of the Bell telephone endured for 17 years. Then independent companies immediately sprang up. The Bell system fought them ruthlessly for years. But local support kept them going, expanding. They formed national organizations, gave a tolerable toll service, far inferior to that of the Bell. Competition stimulated the use of phones. All companies that were fairly efficient made money. In 1912 a sort of peace was worked out between the rivals. The Bell began to give long distance service to Independents. When an Independent was bought out facilities. At present there are 8,200 Independent exchanges still existing...
...most effective means now at hand to bring about desirable changes." A speech: Simplify marking systems so that parents can understand. Another speech: Do not classify children into groups, into "mutt classes," "dumbbells," "morons;" "low I. Q.'s" (Intelligence Quotient). "Incalculable harm may be done by giving children paralyzing inferiority complexes." Another speech: Since the advent of the "junior high school" (seventh to tenth grades), the fourth and fifth grades have been a "dumping ground" for inferior teachers, the best teachers being concentrated in kindergarten work and in the new junior-high department...
...part of both the authorities in charge and the undergraduate waiters, themselves the present attitude is not conducive to success, according to the report. The management has not shown itself sympathetic with the plan; the students themselves have proved inferior to professional waiters...